The Humorous Speaker: Being a Choice Collection of Amusing Pieces, Both in Prose and Verse, Original and Selected : Consisting of Dialogues, Soliloquies, Parodies &c. : Designed for the Use of Schools, Literary Societies, Debating Clubs, Social Circles and Domestic EntertainmentIvison & Phinney, 1858 - 408 pàgines |
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Pàgina 44
... he rested for a moment on his perfect limb , and looked earnestly in her face . " Ye see every one on the sod - green though it is , God bless it - is some how or other born to some sort of poverty . Now , the 44 THE HUMEROUS SPEAKER .
... he rested for a moment on his perfect limb , and looked earnestly in her face . " Ye see every one on the sod - green though it is , God bless it - is some how or other born to some sort of poverty . Now , the 44 THE HUMEROUS SPEAKER .
Pàgina 48
... face , and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule , and other school - boy troubles , in a draught from the Town Pump . Take it , pure as the current of your young life . Take it , and may your heart and tongue never be scorched ...
... face , and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule , and other school - boy troubles , in a draught from the Town Pump . Take it , pure as the current of your young life . Take it , and may your heart and tongue never be scorched ...
Pàgina 50
... Far be it from me , also , to hint , my respectable friends , at the show of dirty faces , which you would present without my pains to keep you clean . Nor will 50 THE HUMOROUS SPEAKER . A Rill from The Town Pump (continued) Hawthorne.
... Far be it from me , also , to hint , my respectable friends , at the show of dirty faces , which you would present without my pains to keep you clean . Nor will 50 THE HUMOROUS SPEAKER . A Rill from The Town Pump (continued) Hawthorne.
Pàgina 52
... faces shall express what their spirits were , and are to be , by a lingering smile of memory and hope . - Ahem ! Dry work , this speechifying ; especially to an un- practised orator . I never conceived , till now , what toil the ...
... faces shall express what their spirits were , and are to be , by a lingering smile of memory and hope . - Ahem ! Dry work , this speechifying ; especially to an un- practised orator . I never conceived , till now , what toil the ...
Pàgina 53
... faces , But swallow it without grimaces . " Said John , when Galen left the room , Eyeing the draught " Excuse me , sir , If I'm too bold - may I presume , Good Mr. Bottle Conjurer ! Just to inquire your nostrum's nature ? " " Most ...
... faces , But swallow it without grimaces . " Said John , when Galen left the room , Eyeing the draught " Excuse me , sir , If I'm too bold - may I presume , Good Mr. Bottle Conjurer ! Just to inquire your nostrum's nature ? " " Most ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 255 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pàgina 315 - GUVENER B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him, o...
Pàgina 221 - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the housetop the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas, too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He...
Pàgina 85 - I look for protection, for assistance, for comfort, and for consolation; in single gentlemen I shall perpetually see something to remind me of what Mr. Bardell was when he first won my young and untried affections; to a single gentleman, then, shall my lodgings be let.
Pàgina 288 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination.
Pàgina 221 - He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked" like a peddler just opening his pack.
Pàgina 67 - SEA The Sea! the Sea! the open Sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's wide regions 'round; It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies; Or like a cradled creature lies. I'm on the Sea! I'm on the Sea! I am where I would ever be...
Pàgina 220 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
Pàgina 389 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee, during my life; I, for a valiant lion, and thou for a true prince.
Pàgina 120 - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So...